GR translation: reet pleats

[Bekah]

Oh good catch David!    Thanks -  and I think many of us are enjoying Mike's reading. 

Bekah

On Mar 6, 2013, at 10:35 PM, David Payne <dpayne1912 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Solved it!
> 
> Problem is, you don't need to define "reet", you need to define "reet pleat". Totally different.
> 
> A reet pleat (sometimes spelled reat pleat) is a pleat in zoot suit pants that extends from the knee (or maybe a bit higher) down to the cuff.
> 
> Here's an image: http://10oopera.files.wordpress.com/011//1//mg-dwg-photo.jpg
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> You can see the reet pleats pretty clearly on the zoot-suit pants in this video, too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRHsYUppPPM
> 
> See, also:
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> * "A young Malcolm X described the zoot suit as: "'a killer-diller coat with a drape shape, reet pleats and shoulders padded like a lunatics cell.'" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoot_suit)
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> * "I want the zoot suit with the reet pleat" (http://www.getwellkathleen.us/LIFE/unsemwww//homefront/zootsuit.htm)
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> * "The design of the suit had many modifications, and came in all colors, but it consisted basically of 'the long killer-diller coat with a drape shape and wide shoulders; pants with reet-pleats, billowing out at the knees, tightly tapered and pegged at the ankles; a porkpie or wide-brimmed hat; pointed or thick-soled shoes; and a long, dangling keychain.'"  (https://www.cdispatch.com/robhardy/article.asp?aid=5572)
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> Curiously, the OED defines reet as sea weed.
> 
> Keep 'em coming, Mike. I'm enjoying this close reading immensely.  You're teaching this native English speakers how much he doesn't know.
> 
>>>> On Sun, Feb 4,, 013 at ::2 AM, Mike Jing 
>> <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> 
>>>> wrote: 
>>>>> 
>>>>> P49..--2 ... It is all out of 
>>> shape, no focus to it until a sarcastic 
>>>>> flourish from the band, and here comes the meanest 
>>> customer Slothrop has 
>>>>> seen outside of a Frankenstein movie—wearing a 
>>> white zoot suit with reet 
>>>>> pleats and a long gold keychain that swings in 
>>> flashing loops as he crosses 
>>>>> the room with a scowl for everybody, in something 
>>> of a hurry but taking the 
>>>>> time to scan faces and bodies, head going side to 
>>> side, methodical, a little 
>>>>> ominous. He stops at last in front of Slothrop, 
>>> who’s putting together a 
>>>>> Shirley Temple for himself. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> What are "reet pleats"? Specifically, what is 
>>> the meaning of the word 
>>>>> "reet" here? I am having trouble finding an 
>>> appropriate translation. 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
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